All posts tagged Sundar Pichai

Google Chief Executive Larry Page is handing off day-to-day responsibilities for the bulk of Google’s product portfolio to fast-rising executive Sundar Pichai, according to a person familiar with the change.

Pichai will direct executives in charge of search, maps, infrastructure, Google+, ads and commerce, research as well as infrastructure. He already oversees Android, Chrome and Apps like Gmail and Google Drive. Read More »

Google Inc. is hedging its bets as it prepares for a future when our laptops and smartphones will be antiquated technology.

In one of the largest venture-capital deals on record, the tech giant and a slew of well-heeled firms are investing $542 million in Magic Leap Inc., a secretive visual-display company near Miami. The startup is developing its own eyeglasses-like device, different from Google Glass, designed to project computer-generated images over a real-life setting. Read More »

Google Senior Vice President Sundar Pichai said he welcomes scrutiny by the European Commission, which is investigating concerns that Google is promoting its own services like maps and search on its Android mobile-operating system while shutting out rivals.

After Chief Executive Larry Page, Pichai may have more responsibility than anyone at Google. In addition to Android, Pichai oversees Google’s Chrome operating system for personal computers, hardware designs for devices including Nexus phones and tablets and Chromebook laptops, as well as apps like Gmail and Google Docs.

Pichai spoke to The Wall Street Journal as Google prepared to unveil its latest Nexus devices and next version of its Android operating system, codenamed “Lollipop,” but which he refers to as “L.” Read More »

Google opens up its two-day conference for developers at noon ET on Wednesday with a keynote address that will focus heavily on the spread of Android. We’re live-blogging the address.

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Google held its big annual developer conference, Google I/O, in San Francisco today.

Google CEO Larry Page made a surprise appearance at the keynote, delivering a speech at the end and actually spending a half hour taking questions from the audience.

Google tends to make major announcements about product plans and developer roadmaps during these keynotes. But this keynote was notably lighter than previous ones, with some big announcements for developers but no major new products for consumers short of updated maps and search services.

Google’s Sundar Pichai, the head of the company’s Chrome division, just took over Android — which certainly made things interesting.

Here’s a full recap of the three-and-a-half hour keynote at the developer conference.